THE BEST AGED CARE JOB AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES IN 2019!

With over 10 years of experience in vocational education and training, Scott shares his expert advice and opinions on industry updates and changes impacting RTOs.

Scott's experience as CEO of three RTOs has exposed him to many ASQA audits and a decade of industry updates and changes. Scott understands that to be successful, RTOs must focus on quality, be adaptable to change, and ensure they focus on their learners first.

Ageing Population Creates Massive Job Growth In Aged Care

With Australia’s growing senior population, the need for more aged care workers has made it one of the fastest growing industries in the health sector. Aged care training resources help to address this need by offering nationally recognised qualifications that offer the skills and knowledge required for this job. It has helped thousands of people build new careers or switch from their existing careers and find employment opportunities in the health care sector.

Aged care training offers several career opportunities. It helps people find meaningful work while offering them better flexibility on how and where they can work. Aged care workers are employed in a variety of health care settings. Aged care services can be delivered directly into a person’s home, community aged care facilities, and in palliative care facilities.

What Are The Aged Care Training Opportunities for RTOs?

Aged care workers provide a wide range of care services that include emotional support, general household assistance, companionship, and assistance for daily living activities for aged and disabled persons. The aged care qualification also offers several career pathways. These opportunities include careers related to nursing or a career that leads to nursing.

We have seen many shifts in terms of workforce demands in some sectors of the economy through the years. These changes are primarily driven by increasing demand for care services with Australia’s rapidly ageing population. Age care training qualifications offer people searching for a new career the opportunity to be part of a rewarding and expanding industry actively searching for new workers.

This is a great opportunity for Australia’s Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) to step up and assist with delivering quality, competent graduates to the industry so aged care services have the kind of qualified staff they need to provide excellent care to their clients.

Jobs Outlook and Aged Care Worker Demand

According to Job Outlook, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Jobs and Small Business, three in five workers in the Aged and Disabled Care sector have a Vocational Education and Training (VET) qualification.

There are currently 175,800 Aged and Disabled Carers in 2018 and this number is expected to grow to 245,000 by 2023. The growing number of job openings can be traced to new job openings but mostly come from workers leaving. At this rate, there will be 179,000 job openings over 5 years, or approximately 35,800 job openings annually.

What Are The Most Popular Aged Care Qualifications?

There are a number of aged care related qualifications students can complete to get a start in the industry or formalise their experience in aged care.

The most popular qualifications are the CHC33015 Certificate III Individual Support (with Ageing & Home and Community) and CHC43015 Certificate IV Ageing Support. The Certificate III is popular as it provides a great entry level skill set to find personal care giver work. The Certificate IV helps develop on a students’ experience to progress into supervisory and management roles within care services.

Each of these courses provides students with the training and competency to work in a variety of aged care settings depending on the skills and knowledge provided by the qualification.

What is the difference between Certificate III Individual Support (Ageing and Home and Community) and Certificate IV Ageing Support Qualification?

The CHC33015 Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing, Home and Community) offers the minimum qualification required for people planning to work as personal careassistants in residential, home and community-based settings. Students who successfully complete this qualification are expected to deliver supervised personal care to the elderly. They must be able to work within the framework of an organization or agreed guidelines of care.

The CHC43015 Certificate IV Ageing Support provides people working as personal care assistants in aged care a pathway to taking more senior roles such as supervisors or team leaders. People with a Certificate IV qualification are also expected to demonstrate leadership and should take more responsibility for the overall quality of care in the workplace.

Aged Care Training Resources

The Aged Care Training resources and materials are designed to make students valuable members of the aged care health and community sector. These aged care training resources equip students who complete the training program the skills and knowledge as specified by the Service Skills Organisations required to perform effectively in the workplace. Your aged care training resources include:

Student Assessment Workbooks

Trainer Assessor Assessment materials

Mapping Document Learner Guides – a comprehensive resource of information and learning content for your students

Self-Study Guides

Class Activity Books

Session Plans

All Aged Care Training Resources created by Compliant Learning Resources have been internally and externally validated by subject matter experts to ensure compliance, updated to include the best industry practices, and designed to provide students with the best learning outcomes.